The Madera Tribune File Photos All three All-Madera Tribune Basketball Most Valuable Players are scheduled to play in Sunday’s Central Section All-Star Basketball games at Liberty High School. Headlining the girls game will be Torres’ J’Lynn Mitchell (pictured above), along with two the two boys MVP’s, Liberty’s Titus Johnson and Madera’s Stevie Estrada. Liberty High School will be the hub of All-Star basketball on Sunday. The Hawks will host four games of the Central Sectio

If you are contemplating endorsement of a candidate for Madera County Supervisor, District 5, I want to make sure you are aware of Melanie Barker’s extensive leadership experience. Melanie Barker (SRS, AHWD, C2EX, RENE) serves California, Hawaii, and Guam as the National Association of REALTORS®’ 2026 Region 13 Regional Vice President. She is the broker-owner of Summit Real Estate, specializing in residential, land, and property management. Melanie has served at all three lev

The “arrogance of ignorance” is how Mr. Wieland started his letter, and meant it for Republicans, but it fits Democrats much better. I know he is trying to pin this war with Iran on President Trump, but that war really started some 47 years ago. Trump is trying to ensure that we will finish this thing, once and for all, and trying to say “he can’t justify and apparently can’t win” is really a dumb statement.

I grew up in Madera, spending many summer days at what we knew as “Swimming Pool Park.” While I no longer live in the city, I still follow local news and care deeply about Madera’s future. Recent news regarding the continued closure of Centennial Pool prompts a vital question: Are Madera’s aquatic facilities adequate for a city of its size, climate, and growth? The municipal pool serving residents today traces its origins to an era when Madera was a town of just a few thousan

David Baldacci has written more than fifty best-selling mystery novels. I think that I’ve read all of them. This one is different. Like his other thrillers, Nash Falls (2025, 424 pages in hardback format) has interesting characters, dastardly subplots, and lots of tension. And yet, it’s different. The book opens with the funeral for Tiberius Nash’s funeral. Ty, to his friends, had been a soldier’s soldier during the Vietnam War. He had the medals, commendations, and purple he

For The Madera Tribune Stagecoaches like the one shown here in front of the hotel at Hildreth, not far from Coarsegold, carried passengers from the mountain towns of Madera County to the Valley. Most of the trips were safely conducted, but occasionally disaster struck, like that time in 1901. It seems so far in the distant past, and yet it hasn’t really been all that long since the only method of transportation from Madera to the foothills and back was in buggies and stagecoa

AAUW will hold its annual 5K run and 2-mile walk at 8 a.m., May 9, at Cedar Creek, 500 N. Westberry in Madera. Money earned from the event goes to scholarships for graduating seniors from local high schools in Madera and Liberty High School, as well as a scholarship for a student at Madera Community College. AAUW also sends female students, who will be 8th graders in the fall, to Fresno State for five days and four nights to be exposed to STEM activities and college life. You

Wendy Alexander/The Madera Tribune Motorists travel through the flooded intersection of Cleveland and Schnoor avenues on Tuesday. For about an hour earlier this week, Madera residents saw the dark clouds rolling in. Then rain and hail fell for about an hour, dropping almost 1.5 inches of rain in one day. Tuesday’s storm dropped 1.42 inches of rain, which annihilated the previous April 21 record of 0.40 inches. “It was a pretty packed bunch of rain that came through in a span